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15 Jan y 1810 Parl y Reform
15 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

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Ch.10 Seat Traffic

'.2. Objections insufficient

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To the Advocate in such his character it is not possible without the sacrifice to sell his services without "tainting and contaminating", without "degrading and debasing" and that day by day, and cause by cause, the moral part of his mind. Even when by accident placed in the right, much more when by like accident placed on the wrong side, misrepresentation, even by self-conscious falshood, still more indispensably by fallacious reticence, is his perpetual task.

Yet the Attorney, pursued by public reproach, has within the last century and less universally sought refuge under the till then comparatively narrow and peculiar appellation of Sollicitor: out of which by the same task /scourge/ he will, sooner or later, if the technical or fee-gathering system of judicature continues, be drawn into some other, and so on:

while the in the person of the Advocate ennobled by the title of Counsel, synonymous /common to him and/ to wisdom, or and that of Councellor, common to him and the Messiah, Falshood sits on high /seating himself on high/ and receives universal homage.

Why? - but because the Bar is the only ladder to the Bench: and because the same wretchedness which when crushed by power is the object of contempt, cloathed with power is the object of respect and admiration.

Cause the death of one man you are hanged. Cause the death of four[?] hundred thousand, by some indeed you are executed, and kept in continual danger of experiencing the same fate, but in the mean time by others you are worshipped and glorified.
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